[Reader-list] Google & the Future of Books (February 12, 2009)

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The New York Review of Books
February 12, 2009
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281?email

Google & the Future of Books
By Robert Darnton

How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only 
beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever 
following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and 
publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the 
last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, 
including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major 
research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The 
authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a 
violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the 
plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a 
profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable 
future. What will that future be?

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